Foresight Linux Essential Advisory: 2007-0016-1 Published: 2007-05-08 Rating: Minor
Updated Versions: kernel=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:devel//[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1/2.6.20.11-1-0.1 group-dist=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1-devel//1/1.2.1-0.21-1 References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1861 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2242 http://lwn.net/Articles/232675/ Description: Previous versions of the Linux kernel are vulnerable to a local user Denial of Service attack in which local users can trigger a kernel stack overflow using the netlink layer, and to one remote Denial of Service attack in which if IPv6 routing has been configured, a remote user can cause the system to use all available network bandwidth by sending a specially-crafted IPv6 packet. In addition, several non-security issues have been resolved that caused some systems to have difficulty booting: attempting to initialize the Intel random number generator caused some recent systems to hang during boot, and NUMA capability was also causing some systems to hang during boot and so has been disabled on x86, where it is generally not needed. A system reboot is required to resolve these issues. Copyright 2007 Foresight Linux Project Portions Copyright 2007 rPath, Inc. This file is distributed under the terms of the MIT License. A copy is available at http://www.foresightlinux.org/permanent/mit-license.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/